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Recently I had a chance to look into BuddyPress, the ’social networking in a box’ for WordPress, and I noticed that a plugin to search member profiles was still missing.

So I’m releasing BP Profile Search. BP Profile Search adds a customizable search form to the Members directory page, so visitors can find site members searching their public profiles.

After installing this plugin, you have to add the search form to your BuddyPress theme.
If you are using the BuddyPress default theme, open index.php in the buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/members folder, locate this line (around line 14):

</div><!-- #members-dir-search -->

and, right after that, insert the BP Profile Search form:

<?php do_action ('bp_profile_search_form'); ?>

If you are not using the BuddyPress default theme, you have to insert the BP Profile Search form somewhere in your theme Members page.

To customize the search form, use the plugin admin page BuddyPress -> Profile Search.

This first version is not perfect, for instance it doesn’t support all the profile field types, but I hope you’ll help me improve it, with your suggestions, bug reports, and patches. BP Profile Search is available for download in the WordPress Plugin Directory and in the BuddyPress Plugin Directory.

Note: if you can’t access the plugin admin page, try renaming your plugin folder name from bp-profile-search to profile-search and reactivating the plugin.

Contao was started by Leo Feyer in 2004 and is released under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

Contao “has an intuitive user interface that uses Ajax and Web 2.0 technologies for optimal usability. Multiple back end languages and themes, a powerful permission system, versioning and undo management, advanced search and sorting options or the Live Update Service are just a few of many features that make Contao stand out from other CMS. The Contao front end is 100% template based and generates accessible XHTML strict output that meets the W3C/WAI requirements. Search engine friendly URLs, GZip support, a PDF export function, multi-language support and many more allow you to build contemporary websites without being a programmer.”

Contao requires a webserver like Apache or IIS with PHP and MySQL support. The minimum PHP version is 5.2 and the minimum MySQL version is 4.1, however Contao recommends using MySQL 5 for a better performance. You also need the PHP extensions GDlib (image resizing) and SOAP (Extension Repository), and optionally mbstring (multi-byte character handling) and mcrypt (data encryption). Contao has been tested successfully with all major browsers like Firefox (from version 2) and Internet Explorer (from version 7).

Contao was known as TYPOlight before June 2010.

Menubar 4.7 improves the PageTree and CategoryTree item types, adding the Exclude and the Headings multiselect fields.

The Exclude field lets you specify which pages or categories, if any, you wish to exclude from the generated menu tree.

The Headings field lets you specify which pages or categories, if any, you wish to display like headings, making them non clickable.

These two new fields, together with the Depth field introduced in Menubar 4.6, should offer you greater flexibility in building page and category menus.

As usual, you can find the Menubar documentation and download links in the main menu of this site. Thank you for your interest in Menubar!

WebsiteBaker (formerly spelled as Website Baker) is a PHP and MySQL based Content Management System originally developed by Ryan Djurovich and now maintained by the WebsiteBaker Association.

WebsiteBaker started in 2004, with version 2.0.0, a full rewrite of the previous version, released in September of that same year.

Primarily used to create small and medium-sized websites and focused on simplicity of use, WebsiteBaker requires PHP 4.4.9 or higher (5.2.x strongly recommended), MySQL 3.2.3 or higher, with PHP Safe Mode off and PHP Session Support activated, and it’s made available under the GNU GPL license.

Update: the site move is completed, please update your bookmarks and your feeds! Should you find any problem with this move, please report it in the comments. Thank you!

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For almost five years I’ve maintained my other site, dontdream.it, in both English and Italian. I’ve never been completely comfortable with that arrangement, and I’m now convinced that a single language site is the way to go. So I’m going to move the English part of dontdream.it to BlogsWeek.com, which is in English only.

The plan is to close the comments on dontdream.it, move the English posts to BlogsWeek.com, reopen the comments here, then remove the English part on dontdream.it. At the end of the process, dontdream.it will be in Italian only, and BlogsWeek.com will continue to be in English only. I hope that you’ll be happy with the final result, and that you’ll update your bookmarks.

Thank you for your patience!